Error Trips Reactor Safety
Associated Press
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. —
Unit 1 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant shut itself down for 4 1/2 hours Saturday after an operator threw an incorrect switch during a routine setting of instruments, a utility spokesman said.
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